Summary: Sermon titled "The Passion of the Church: Part 1" given on Monday March 23, 2009. Size: 15.7 MB; duration: 68:29. The church must undergo a passion in unity with Jesus, each member of His Body, the Church, must in their own sense undergo a passion in order to merit eternal salvation. The Protestant revolt in England is used as an example of one of the parallels of Christ's Passion, including the sacrifices of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More. Finally, the story of St. Elizabeth Leseur and her husband Felix is told in order to drive home the point of each person's individual passion, and the necessary suffering one must endure if one is to save his own soul, and possibly the soul of another.
